A dispute threatening chaos to Christmas mail across Ireland today looked close to resolution as union chiefs considered a new pay deal.
Leaders of the Irish Postmasters Union, which last week rejected an offer by postal company An Post, were today studying a compromise package drawn up over the weekend.
Read MorePlans by the postal regulator, PostComm, to limit how much Royal Mail can charge rivals to use its network have been attacked by Allan Leighton, the company’s chairman as “unrealistic, flawed and totally unacceptable”. Leighton says that these latest proposals, along with separate caps on postage prices, will cost Royal Mail pounds 760m and will threaten its continued ability to deliver to every home and business in the UK. He is this weekend writing to all 659 MPs to ask their help in fighting PostComm’s stance.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has been forced to shelve controversial plans for a single postal delivery until next year after the experiment was branded “a shambles” by the Communication Workers Union. Union representatives held a series of meetings with the Royal Mail to discuss the plans, which were supposed to save the postal service GBP350m a year. Royal Mail says the new service had suffered “teething problems”.
Read MoreCommentry from The Times on Royal Mail board appointments.
Allan Leighton’s powers of persuasion apparently know no bounds. When he took on the chairmanship of what was then ludicrously known as Consignia, even his friends told him he was brave, verging on mad. But now he has lined up not one but four heavyweights to join him on the board of what is now Royal Mail.
The Royal Mail today abandoned plans to contract-out its cash distribution services after the threat of industrial action from workers.
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said the turnaround was a “victory for common sense” but in a joint statement with the Post Office warned the department would need a major reorganisation.
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